How I designed a life to travel full time (and how you can too)

[@thechrishau]

If you could travel full time. What countries would you want to go too? What’s holding you back from doing it?

[@DJMAJAY]

Hey Chris ,, Greetings from India. Please make a tutorial on how to make better shorts for KZbin + Editing and some new ideas for shorts.😇😇

[@TARIQABDELPHOTO]

The 9-5 and money going to supporting the fam is holding me back - but I'm working all my free time on my growing my KZbin channel to escape the conventional lifestyle! Excited to watch this video to learn more.

[@darianreguindin5510]

Philippines, Ireland, Norway and so many more! Family and money unfortunately.

[@john_vowles]

Iceland then bali. I feel like whats holding me back personally is school and leaving everyone behind

[@john_vowles]

Also did you go to school for photography, if you did what school did u go to

[@herodot86]

so nice. right now I am also in Mexico (Veracruz) and work for my first client here. Also had quit my engineering job in austria to go full time travel and work as an digital artist and photographer.

[@EliasMendozaTV]

That’s Awesome thank you for represent my country 💪🏻 but in the other hand watch out for your gear camera stuff like that.

[@jessicamcdonald7578]

This video was so inspiring Chris! Love it! 😌

[@youfollow_]

Travel filmmaking/Digital Nomad always been my childhood career. Chris glad you took that path, hopefully will see you in the future. Keep seeking greatness

[@MrandMrsLivingLife]

Viva Chris Hau 👏👏😁

[@ronja7235]

Thanks for your great video. It is very inspiring. I am also a photographer. I have one question for you: what exactly do your clients ask you to do? Do they ask you for pictures of certain places?

[@LoganMaddoxfilms]

Bro I'm moving to Africa in a month. I feel less crazy watching people like you.

[@Luke..luke..luke..]

You sound like one of the KZbin adverts that come up before a normal video... 🤔

[@freneticallyYT]

Your latest video about this topic are truly inspirational! 'Someone else has walked through the forest with a lantern, just follow the foot steps.'. Dude, you are holding the lantern!

[@thechrishau]

Go get it!

[@freneticallyYT]

@@thechrishau I will 👊

[@joeyburghard]

I made a video about becoming a digital nomad too! Absolutely love this topic 🤙🏽✈️

[@NomadicGems]

I would agree 100% I love is videos

[@40laceration]

Digital Nomad life isn’t as glamorous as this guy makes it seem. You still have to put in work hours to fund your travels. What he doesn’t show you is him huddled over a laptop in a hotel or hostel for half the day.

[@nickagrinzone]

I believe it definitely comes down to how bad you want it. I recently visited LA for the first time, and made it my mission to simply film. I ended up turning my trip into a documentary featuring local spots and artists and ultimately left with more connections. Even if it’s cold emailing business’ in your dream destination until you finally get a response, it’s still one step closer to living your truth 💫🎬

[@RizZaTV]

And do you live your dream already? Or you still stuck in a 9-5 job?

[@ga1actic.mu5ic]

So true Chris! "Memento Mori" as well as "Carpe diem" and "Be the change you want to see in the world" are the mottos I live by the most in the world myself. Glad to hear a fellow nomad does as well. Love the content, keep up the great work👍🙂🌍

[@FabianGuppenberger]

Had 3 job interviews today. Maybe I get one of them, to just pay my fixed costs, but even if they are jobs as Social Media Managers, I only pursue their dream and not mine. I need to be selfemployed in the long run. I want to build a life of adventure, joy, happiness & freedom. Even if being selfemployed means less money in the beginning, I don‘t care. I don‘t need to impress anyone, except for me. And you Chris are a big inspiration, I will learn now everything I need to get clients like tourismboards or other companies which are in the travel-space, to really pursue my own dream and not someone elses. Thank you!

[@thechrishau]

Let’s go Fabian!

[@FabianGuppenberger]

@@thechrishau thank you Chris!

[@sergiosala]

I’ve been digital nomading for 8 years, and I understand every point you say Chris. I have a few videos of Mexico if y’all wanna check out.

[@thechrishau]

Bro! I watched your video about PV! Got so many great ideas from it.

[@JonackFilm]

I just got my first Cooperation with a Iceland Camper Van Company and I can Safe almost 2000€ because of my Camera and my Skills. You encouraged me to do this :) thank you

[@benowa]

13:12 Ahahah I was exactly thinking about that before you told us 😂 Great video Chris, I really appreciate this type of content!

[@saca.technology]

HELLOLA!!! New favorite word 😂

[@jelengraphics]

Hey, how are you making it with the internet connection out there in all these different places? Like if you are a video editor, the downloads and uploads are massive.

[@AhmetKaan]

*Remember, the moment you accept total responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you claim the power to change anything in your life...*

[@randallrydes]

"...all these things are happening all the time around us and its literally your decision to go out and seize them." THAT right there! YES! This is why we GOOOO!!!

[@thechrishau]

Yesss!

[@MTravelVlog]

I really enjoyed your video. 🤩⭐️ Thanks for Sharing! 👍🏼💕 Greetings from Albania. 🇦🇱

[@martynarapacz2260]

"Halola" is a thing now✨

[@thechrishau]

HALOLA

[@jonnylakewood7767]

Chris, you're so grown up! LOL -no really, you shared a few really good nuggets. Thank you.

[@KeeganEvansPhoto]

Loved this one dude! Ready to visit Mexico 😳

[@lucatrentin97]

I'm planning to come to Canada looking for you and Pete this summer, I hope we'll meet because a travel from Italy is long and expensive and I don't want to came there and knowing that you are somewhere around the world 😂 just saiyn'.. 😏

[@noblecomments4009]

As always!, perfect video, and I do see your point, but honestly irl that doesn’t apply to perfection in a lot of scenarios, good intention and motivation, no doubt on that tho! awesome shots!

[@7sevenproductions]

Thank you so much for sharing this! You’ve definitely helped me and inspired me. My dream is get a van, live in it and create content as I travel and hopefully quit my day job 🙏🏽

[@oeunouch]

Lets go! I'm work in progress!

[@travel9to5]

Thanks for sharing the insights with us, Chris! Nomading is amazing but it takes a lot of time to create the work setup of your dreams.

[@DanielBryn]

Great points there Chris! Let go of that previous vine 5 years ago, semi-crashed 2 years later (no income, just happy-go-luckying, heh). Then I found your video on making stock video through blackbox in 2018 that really renewed the hope of continue the dream life. And it did! just got back from my 10th year in Africa where I do selfdrive all the time, and im sure you can imagine the ammounts of wildlife stock videos from there. Now working on upping video editing skills, building an audience as a second (maybe third or fourth) income stream. Being 40 when youre supposed to be on "top of your game" in a "respectable job" (heard that a few times) never applied to my core beliefs, really. Id rather have a little less money, and do the things I love. The world simply has too much on offer, and life is short. Cheers for the vid, and have a good one!

[@brandenflasch]

I had the same realization as a realtor about being geographically trapped and got out, so glad I did.

[@Wklambert]

Time is not only finite, it is very, very short. Trust me. I woke up yesterday, and I was 50 years old. There is soooo much left to do. I've done a lot, and been lots of places, but... There is a lot left to accomplish.

[@DarrenM]

Did you make the thumbnail for this in Canva? 😉

[@Shravangohan]

Hey Chris. Really appreciate the content you produce. Thanks for providing us with useful content🤗. There are a parts of this video where the clips are really blurry felt there was something wrong with KZbin but realised it was parts of the video itself.

[@NickGeorge]

What I got from this is to buy your course to find out more in depth, or wait until we have a social media following we can leverage. I’m gonna be honest this wasn’t my favorite video in terms of value.

[@carlycchapman]

Honestly, most of his videos are, "Look how awesome my life is, you can do it too if you buy my course"

[@holisticasmrwithpreem-zm7cp]

​@@carlycchapmanbut that what digital marketing is about guys, 😢I mean! Stop hating for no reason at least he's giving us ideas on how to, we can't always expect others to spoon feed us...come on now😮

[@JoeClement]

This is the dream haha I can vouch for how difficult it can be to built this life as I'm trying to do so right now. I'd like to go to Thailand and most of Indonesia and well money is holding me back right now haha😂

[@RyoHazuki224]

Yeah, lol like thats the thing. Everybody with a camera WANTS to be the person to travel the world and make money doing it. But like... HOW? If you have like hundreds of photographers in any given city all just doing travel photography and videos, who am I to also do that same thing. I know, I know "Just stand out from the crowd" Super easy to say, not so easy to do. Like my whole thing is like, okay other than HOPING you get a following on social media for your photos, my question has always been, how do you even go about getting clients? Who do you sell your travel photos to? Storyblocks isn't gonna take all of our videos either. And yeah, Chris you have your course video of "make money when traveling with zero followers", and that may be super valuable for sure. Just that, ahhh, I think I'm just so frustrated lately with my photography. I dont mean to take it out on anybody but its like I'm spinning my wheels in the sand and not getting anywhere, and I don't know what to do. My full time job is necessary for me to, you know, LIVE, and it doesn't give me the time I think I need to really do the research and learning necessary to figure out WHAT to do with my photography that I've been doing for the past like 7 years now. In all that time, I've only got paid ONCE for a photography job and that was one wedding. Everything else I've done for people that are broke and they were TFP projects in the few hours a month I have free time from work to do a project and edit it. I dont have the time to do work that would get me noticed, I feel. I love photography. I feel its my calling in life. But at the same time, I hate photography. Its much much harder than I ever imagined it would be. Not while maintaining a full time job.

[@InfinityShotsRealty]

I was sooooo gonna say wow they left the camera behind them! 🤣😂 Love Mexico!

[@coucamaya]

5:00 they climb everything. Including rock faces. If you visit Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 any time , hit me up. Carnival is the perfect time

[@HectorSaulify]

Guys being from Mexico I'm telling you, you should go visit Cancún, Tulum and Playa del Carmen... You're gonna LOVE these places!

[@BostelD]

Hi man! I ve always been interested in mens fashion and lifestyle (cars/self improvement/health), do u think theres still place in content creation world for me? I just feel like everyone is doing that at this point...

[@JakeEarp]

Great Video as always!! Funny to see your reaction to a large iguana.They live in my back yard here in south Florida, but I suppose you don't see many roaming around in Toronto 😝

[@anton_to_adventures]

the instereseting part is that traveling will not make everyone happy :D . majority of the people will still be unhappy , because the reason of not being happy is very rarely a lack of travel :D

[@jacobzatorsky]

So powerful! I love how you took your life in your own hands!

[@tristanvanasse3968]

I've been thinking alot about starting photography for clients but I'm just not sure as I have only been doing photos for about 8 months. I'm just not sure if I should pursue it or not. This is one thing I've been super passionate about. If anyone has any suggests let me know.

[@PaperKittenProd]

truly great video but... you've gotta LOVE those 144p clips in the first part XD

[@BorisTheArtist]

Wow! That's a dream job! Happy for you! I'm trying to get to that point too now)

[@becomingfilmmaker7694]

I live in Canada. I used take a break and go to a hot place in December and January just to avoid the extreme cold. I love Australia, NZ, Mexico and it would awesome to work while traveling so I don't come back with an empty bank account.

[@ShootingStars808]

I let go of the vine. That's why I ended up on Maui as a portrait & music photographer. Once here, it was why leave so I have been a photographer on Maui for over 30 years. ⭐⭐⭐🌴📸

[@CierraSalleyHinds]

I'm not gon lie I liked your videos before, but I'm eager to watch your videos now since you're move to Mexico. My wife and I are planning to move there so this is just confirmation🥰 Keep em coming 😎🌴🧉

[@SidsDrakon]

This is a hard push. I have a 9-5 that pays well but like you said I am tired of the 9-5 life and want to change, I feel tired and feel that my life is wasting away. So yeah, more wood to the fire 😁 Thank You Chris.

[@SimpleAndCo]

Whaaaa. Mexico is not in Sepia tone?!? Darn, Hollywood has been lying to us all this while!!!

[@SkalleMedia]

Are you not afraid dropping your camera into the ocean from jetski? This, and leaving the camera behind at the end... I'm glad you clarified your concerns at least for that :D

[@DaveSy]

Definitely the video I needed right now. Feeling exactly on the cusp of this big transition. Thank you for this!

[@KenyattaDavisPhotography]

I didn’t know they climbed trees until i was in Puerto Rico last year and saw one in Rincon do it

[@MrChrisCube]

I think you didnt remember to switch back from the proxies of the 360º camera during editing the jetski ride... or.... is it that crappy the picture of the camera?

[@BrodyDema]

3:00 is the half/half blues of the water/sky because of a polarising/ ND filter? just curious

[@TuckerPearce]

Storyblocks has an impressive budget. Great video as always Chris. Thanks for sharing your experience with us and how you transitioned over to more of a nomad lifestyle.

[@ebonyrgooden]

Can someone please let me know if the videos in the course have closed captioning because I'm Deaf?

[@RizZaTV]

Only 0,01% of the people could do that! You need a huge amount of luck to be able to live from a blog/yt channel whatever. So not everyone can do that

[@nickrstic]

I get what you’re saying… been building that type of life for 5 years and it takes time, but eventually being free anywhere in the world while working is no comparison of how happy you can be!

[@HalloFilmz]

I have two works and working wothout weekends.. All my travels is from bed to sofa and from sofa to bed.. Like your videos and have a hope that one day I will do 5% of all I see here.

[@TwentynineStudio]

What an inspiration to change a view of life and start being truly happy while making stuff that we can't stop thinking about. Thank you for this! Keep creating and inspiring others!

[@aaronhayford9275]

Currently taking a year off. To road trip through the US and see if I can make travel filmmaking a full-time job. If not, I'm having an unforgettable year regardless.

[@knottage]

Should have got some high quality footage of some sea-doo footage 🤣🤣 coz that shot was pixelated af

[@filipsaprkin]

Chris is youtube your second job? And your main income from doing project for others?

[@GaryDankDaze]

Can I apprentice under you my passion is photography and video

[@scenicscotland1]

Hau cool, I had ‘Memento Mori ‘ tattooed on me about 12 years ago! Similar mantra but different circumstance! I have it across my collarbone, so I see it every day in the mirror as a reminder.

[@FrakeLP]

is it possible to be an editor digital nomad? I mean, isnt it a big struggle transfering hundreds of GBs through dropboxes etc.?

[@TstyleLifestyle]

Great video! I’m just now about to make more content so maybe one day I’ll be able to travel full time

[@armandocarl]

Hi man great video! I have one question tho; how did you get in contact with your first paying client?

[@FelixHuray]

Please visit Bali, indonesia. !!!!!!

[@mattorrz759]

Loved the vid. Wish I was young again with such amazing opportunities ✌️

[@kinetickennons]

Awesome to see you in Vallarta, enjoy!!

[@Velitskiy_Sergey]

12:56 Lol, even at this side of the screen i felt the same about the last scene of the video... Contrats, Chris!

[@Adventurist]

Took us 5 years to finally get paid to travel full-time. Like Chris said, if you really want it and work your ass off you’ll manage it eventually. Just sitting there and dreaming about it won’t change a thing. Take risks and do it. That also means you have to invest money and time before you earn more money than you put into it. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

[@TomOHalloranAus]

This was great! Looking forward to getting more free with my work. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@fardeensaifi3001]

That's interesting.

[@thechrishau]

Thank you.

[@ashishmandavkar7875]

only the 360 footage looks pixelated like144p in also fhd quality

[@vilimposavec3422]

2:36 - is this some kind of a split screen 50-50 colorgrade? Cuz it looks so fun

[@dhrich147]

This sounds exactly like what I'm doing right now 🤣

[@jar17rocks]

"Watch your back!" Peter Mickinnon sent me! 😂

[@darksidevenom6]

What was with the bad GoPro Footage, that was so visually jarring?

[@alexwebermedia]

I’m heading to Isla Mujeres on this Sunday Love the message too!

[@joeyburghard]

I posted a video just like this! I became a digital nomad too haha 😁🤙🏽

[@ExploringCanadaInfo]

Hello-la! Best working video ever! 🌞 Love the titles too! 👋🏼🇨🇦

[@RGMGFitness]

We'll to be honest, the whole Covid thing has slowed me down. Haven't wanted to book much knowing my plans might get canceled and having to deal with the head-aches of trying to re-coop costs (been there previously). I'm sure many can relate. But, I'm starting to finally feel optimistic (Feb. 2022) about things. Booked my 1st international flight, since covid started, earlier today. Can't wait for travel to really start opening up again.

[@Eggph]

Whats up with the 360 footage beeing reeeeeally low quality?

[@AdventuresThings]

Be careful of what seeds you eat on the McCandles journey. This was great thank you for sharing.

[@bulgiriri]

You made 6 figures per year so you had a lot of money to invest in the business ..

[@printsbytoni]

Also has an incredible soundtrack by Eddie Vedder 👌🏾

[@kurtisca]

Legit video, thanks for the great content. (And I’m living vicariously through your trip as there is nothing I would like more than to be on a warm beach right now...)

[@vinilion]

Love that you're into Stoicism! Enjoy Mexico!

[@DgreatChannel]

I wanted to travel the world and be a digital nomad as well🥺

[@freeleymedia]

I'm at a crossroads right now in my career. I'm currently in between software developer jobs where I was making nearly 6-figures/year. Part of me wants to go back to the comfort of my remote 9-5 but part of me doesn't. I've been doing youtube for years with varying results but this year feels different. Getting paid to travel was my original goal when creating my channel and this year just might be the year I take the plunge. I might just end up using that coupon code 👀

[@rannovisuals]

I think this life jacket is too big for me... xD

[@jax1079]

“You deserve the life you want to live…” Exactly what I’m working on now. And you’re the guy with the lantern. 😉 Thanks, man.

[@REVIEWSONTHERUN]

Interesting! Thank you for sharing it ✌️

[@IagoAlmeidaI]

Wow this was Very Very helpful